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Speaking Tips For IELTS
EXAM By: Behnam Forghani
IELTS Instructor
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IELTS speakingband scores
explained
How is your IELTS speaking band scorecalculated? This is an important question for
any IELTS candidate because many mistakes
can be avoided by knowing what the examiner
is looking for and how your speaking is
graded. This post gives you a brief outline of
the grading criteria, how band scores arecalculated and how examiners typically grade
the speaking.
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The 4 grading criteria There are 4 criteria:
Fluency and coherence:How fluently you speak
and how well you link your ideas together Pronunciation:How accurate your pronunciation
is
Lexical resource:How accurate and varied your
vocabulary is Grammatical range and accuracyHow accurate
and varied your grammar is
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What do these criteria mean? This is IELTS and IELTS examiners are trained to
interpret these criteria in a particular way. Intheory it should not matter where you take yourtest as all examiners grade consistently. I suggest
you should spend time understanding the detailhere as that way you can avoid many commonmistakes.
One main point is that in all the criteria a key idea
is being clear. The main idea is whether you canexpress yourself clearly so that someone else canunderstand you.
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Fluency
Fluency is a combination of:
speed of speech
length of answer
pausing correctly
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Coherence is the ability to
expand your answers
answer the questions directly add relevant detail to explain or illustrate your
answers
connect your sentences by using tenses andconnectors
Coherence
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Common mistakes
You should note that very fast or very longanswers are not necessarily good, as you may
be penalised for poor pronunciation or lack of
coherence. In the speaking the main point is
that you are able to express yourself clearly.
Another common mistake is to not answer the
question. This is where you will be penalised.
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Pronunciation
The main point here is that your pronunciation is easyto understand and whether your are able to make yourmeaning clear. Features of good pronunciation include:
Basic word pronunciation
linked speech sounds
Correct sentence stress
Correct use of intonation (rising and falling)
You should note that there is no need to have aBritish or American accent.
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Common Mistake
A common mistake here is to
use long words without really
knowing what they mean.
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Grammatical Range and
AccuracyThere are two key points to understand here: you need to avoid grammar mistakes
especially with your tenses
you need to use a rangeof grammatical
structures and you should not just use simple
sentences all the time
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When are they graded?
All 4 criteria are judged throughoutall 3 parts of the speaking testso it
is important to concentrate frombeginning to end. Although your test
will be recorded, you will almost
certainly be graded in real time inthe test by the examiner sitting in
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How are band
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All the criteria count equally
One mistake candidates make is to focus onone or other of the criteria or forget about
one altogether (normally cohesion and
coherence). Why is this wrong? They all count
equally.
What happens is that you get a score out of 9
for each of the criteria, they are addedtogether and then that score is divided by 4.
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For more information refer to this
blog:
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